Example sentences of "[adv] to see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 3 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 4 | Being on the 46th floor , I threw the curtains wide open to enjoy this unusual event , took a shower and casually sauntered back into my room stark naked — only to see a man outside my window ! |
| 5 | ‘ We are selling publishers ’ books at list prices , to the core market , and thus ensuring that publishers are able to recover their origination , only to see a mass of examples of the same book on offer elsewhere at cheaper prices . |
| 6 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 7 | He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy , only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs . |
| 8 | The years in question are a woman 's fifth decade ; the danger is , predictably , of loss of identity , rejection , pain , a failure any longer to see a purpose in what is left of life . |
| 9 | It 's very very occasionally , it 's normally to see a one-off . |
| 10 | With his video recorder still running , he dashed outside to see a youth sprinting down Kingston Street in the Corporation Road area . |
| 11 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 12 | ‘ I told the people around me that I wanted to quit , so they flew me back home to see a doctor . |
| 13 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 14 | Therapist : ‘ Everybody who comes here to see a psychologist has different expectations . |
| 15 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 16 | Modern secateurs are now so good , however , that professional opposition to them has virtually disappeared , and it is a rare sight indeed to see a knifesman carefully honing the curved blade with his special fine-grained carborundum stone , invariably kept in an oilskin tobacco pouch in his apron pocket . |
| 17 | It stood there , motionless , and I was amazed at my luck ; it is very rare indeed to see a bittern in the open like this , and in daytime . |
| 18 | Dorothy L.Sayers was born and educated in the city , so it was only fitting that other women crime writers should be there to see a plaque unveiled in her honour . |
| 19 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 20 | We have yet to see a patient whose iron deficiency arose from a problem in the rectum or lower sigmoid in the absence of observed rectal bleeding , a change of bowel habit , or abnormality on digital examination . |
| 21 | Many of Ireland 's waters have yet to see a fly , lure or baited hook . |
| 22 | ‘ I have yet to see a trailer that is anything reminiscent of the film it promotes , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 24 | The doctor wished to remove a lymph gland for examination , to verify HTLV3 , but I refused to allow this despite considerable pressure and went instead to see a homeopath . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway I 'm a twitcher , one of these mad guys who goes anywhere to see a bird he 's not seen before . |
| 26 | He himself would have gone anywhere to see a set of tack of strange cut or history . |